im_cynical

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by im_cynical 6y ago
I’ve been more “devops” then SA for the past 10 years and some of us can code and at a very decent level. Having said that author states they’re the first to admit they can’t code. That’s true, and I’ve even heard it from very competent tha
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by im_cynical 6y ago
I'm a casual watcher of his show (maybe 1 show every few weeks). Spotify has made no investment into their platform to support podcasts. No notification system for new episodes, no already listened to tracking, no subscriptions or an a
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by im_cynical 7y ago
I was just looking for a site search solution three days ago for a side project I'm working on. I found Elastic's offering but found the lack of a free tier(no 14-day trail crap) off-putting. I'll give these guys a try. Grats
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by im_cynical 7y ago
I heard some economist call Uber "the greatest transfer of wealth in a very long time". What Uber is doing is taking investors money and subsidizing your Uber ride to a restaurant. They are providing value and I'm a casual us
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by im_cynical 8y ago
I've had something similar happen to me once. I'm DevOps, very systems focused. I was leaving Cisco and got on an interview panel with 4 network engineers at some place. I caveated I know networking better than most but I'm b
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by im_cynical 8y ago
We gloss over them because: 1. Your first point about "unproven cancer treatment" has an overly narrow focus on the edge of medical research. These cases are yes something that needs to be addressed, but they are far from the norm
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by im_cynical 8y ago
> I'm a little disappointed in the final "conclusion" of the report, though. The end of the executive summary basically chalks the breach up to two things: "Equifax's IT management structure was complicated"
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by im_cynical 8y ago
Not OP, but I spent 5 years at Cisco. It wouldn't be terribly hard to hide opex in a company that size.. there's a good deal of discretion given to middle management with their budgets and non-existent oversight.
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by im_cynical 8y ago
Ex employee of 5 years here. It was open secret that the system was being abused. What they would do is post a notice of intent to hire an H1B by posting the job listing in break rooms along with requirements that were clearly senior level
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by im_cynical 8y ago
I sold my house in the bay area a year and half ago. Mine was bought by a young Indian family and funded by their parents who were both fancy doctors and 1+ million in liquid assets (asset proof was provided to me by the sellers as part of
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by im_cynical 8y ago
My current indie web app is still in development so final numbers for prod are TBD. However I'm using it for * Storing time counters on user actions (timestamp of last time a user posted/edited X, meant to be a throttling mechanis
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by im_cynical 8y ago
Currently been working on a web app for about 8 months. Python for the backend under the argument of "build using what you know". ReactJS for frontend development because Python for frontend work I find very antiquated. Architectu
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by im_cynical 8y ago
"Hackers broke into the computer systems of the Barack Obama and John McCain campaign teams during the US presidential race and stole a ''serious amount of files" in an operation that US government cyber experts believe
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by im_cynical 8y ago
Come on man.. there's mountains of evidence and countless stories indicating foreign involvement to help R's in our election system. Your logic could have held some circumstantial weight if there was one, maybe two stories but its